Experts Warn About Weaponized Starvation in Gaza & Sudan

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including by Israel in Gaza, and by both sides in Sudan's civil war.

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says the famine is man-made. "Atrocities in Palestine, atrocities in Sudan that relate to malnutrition, that relate to famine, are a consequence of underlying structures that enable these things to happen," says Haj-Hassan, who also volunteered in Gaza.

"The children who have been through this will suffer physical and cognitive harm for the rest of their lives, and there is an obligation on those who perpetrated the crime, and indeed on the rest of us, to give them the support," says famine researcher Alex de Waal.